Promised land: settlement schemes in Kenya, 1962 to 2016
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Keywords
Kenya; territorial politics; resettlement; political economy; land policy; UKRI block grant;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2021-08-16 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2021-08-16 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-ISF-2021-08-16 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-POL-2021-08-16 (Positive Political Economics)
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